First Avenue classics

As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.

Hester Prynne, a young woman in colonial Boston, has an affair with a Puritan minister and bears a daughter out of wedlock. She struggles to keep the identity of her lover a secret while she is condemned to wear a scarlet A embroidered on her clothes.

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.

In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan boy lives in the squalid surroundings of a workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

Presents Joseph Conrad's short novel in which Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his journey into the African jungle, and his encounter with a cruel white trader named Kurtz.

Details the adventures of a young Victorian boy who runs away from his cruel stepfather to live with his eccentric aunt in London.

An autobiography of abolitionist Frederick Douglass which describes his childhood born into slavery and his education by his master's wife. Also discusses his escape to the North, his rise as a speaker against slaver, and his work in the 1840's against segregation.

Presents James Joyce's vignettes of everyday life in Dublin, Ireland at the turn of the century.

Presents the text of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a comedy in which two sets of lovers, lost in the woods, get caught up in a dispute between the fairy king and queen, along with a group of local thespians.